Originally Posted by
ViralRiver
On a similar note. In the future I will be buying BE to fly to London from JFK fairly regularly since I still get baggage thanks to OWS. In this case since it's a personal booking I can get my wife on the same ticket in BE, but will I still have the same issue where benefits aren't conferred to her in BE, or will I be able to assign seats without issue since she's on the same PNR?
Thanks!
I made a dummy booking in Basic Economy as an AAdvantage Platinum (OWS) and had no issues assigning MCE seats for myself and a non-status companion. I don't think you'll have any issues with same-PNR bookings.
It's possible that American could treat its own elites differently than other programs' OWS, but I doubt it.